Founding Product Engineer

Founding Product Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite, 5 days/week)

Role Overview

Founding Product Engineer responsible for building core product features end-to-end, combining frontend, backend, infrastructure, and customer-facing problem solving. This is a zero-to-one role with direct ownership over product direction and engineering execution.

Responsibilities

• Own full product development lifecycle from idea through production deployment
• Talk directly with customers to understand needs, pain points, and feature requests
• Design and plan product solutions from first principles
• Build backend systems and APIs supporting new product features
• Develop frontend interfaces and user-facing components
• Provision infrastructure required to support product functionality and scale
• Ship features rapidly and iterate based on real customer feedback
• Diagnose and fix bugs quickly while also implementing long-term scalable solutions
• Collaborate directly with founders to shape product roadmap and engineering direction

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals with ability to execute across full stack
• Ability to build and ship products end-to-end independently
• Pragmatic decision-making in fast-paced startup environments
• Commitment to continuous improvement as an engineer
• Strong communication and product thinking skills